Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for New Bethel:
35.094534, -89.534522
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on New Bethel
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Fayette County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named New Bethel.
There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named New Bethel.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
McMinn County
This New Bethel is located in McMinn County and lies 280 miles [450.6 km]<1> to the east of the New Bethel that is located in Fayette County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McMinn County community of New Bethel.
Sullivan County
This New Bethel is located in Sullivan County and lies 412 miles [663 km]<1> to the east northeast of the New Bethel that is located in Fayette County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of New Bethel.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Colbert County
This New Bethel is located in Colbert County and lies 103 miles [165.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the New Bethel that is located in Fayette County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colbert County community of New Bethel.
Indiana
Marion County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of New Bethel [Marion County].
Mississippi
Tishomingo County
This New Bethel is located in Tishomingo County and lies 83 miles [133.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the New Bethel that is located in Fayette County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tishomingo County community of New Bethel.
North Carolina
Orange County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of New Bethel [Orange County].
Texas
Jefferson County
Although located in Jefferson County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of New Bethel.
Curious and Interesting Names Near New Bethel ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as New Bethel to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in New Bethel and extending to:
Somerville, which is the Seat of Fayette County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from New Bethel to Somerville, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 171 miles [275.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 736 miles [1,184.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 42 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,586 miles [10,599.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,308 miles [11,761.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,184 miles [8,342.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- New Bethel) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that New Bethel could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<5>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from New Bethel to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in New Bethel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0945, Longitude: -89.5345 In this case, the coordinates for New Bethel have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.46 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.566 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.109 degrees.